Section: News & Summaries

The NATO Support Agency has extended a contract with Ruslan SALIS GmbH for strategic transportation in the interests of NATO and EU countries until the end of 2016, the press service of the Antonov State Enterprise has reported. “The customer’s decision is based on eight years of experience of effective work on the Antonov-124-100...

Maidan Community Sector, Lviv: Dear friends! December 30 – In the last 24 hours overall situation in Donbas became more intense despite the ceasefire, – said NSDC spokesman Andriy Lysenko: “We have recorded relocation and accumulation of militants near the town of Shchastya and particularly close to Old Aydar village – the terrorists have...

Units of militants involved in the latest attacks on the positions of Ukrainian troops in the Donetsk airport area, leaving cover on the frontline, have moved back to their positions. Information Resistance group leader Dmytro Tymchuk reported this on his Facebook page. “Earlier, Russian-terrorist troops for two days were trying to break...

The situation in the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) zone in eastern Ukraine did not change significantly last night, although militants fired at Ukrainian military positions 11 times, ATO spokesman Leonid Matiukhin has reported on Facebook. “The militants continued armed provocations, firing at Ukrainian servicemen with small arms, grenade...

The command of the Russian-terrorist forces continues to deploy artillery and armored vehicles in the Pervomaisk-Artemivsk direction near the buffer zone, Information Resistance group leader Dmytro Tymchuk has reported on his Facebook page. “The arrival of another artillery battalion (two batteries of cannon artillery (14 units) and one...

Bringing wages “out of the shadows” will allow enterprises to reduce the payment of social security tax by three times. Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said this at a press conference on Tuesday, an Ukrinform correspondent reported. “If the company brings wages out of the shadows and begins to pay more than it paid in...

Ukraine has accumulated 1.4 million tonnes of coal in its storage facilities and gradually resumes coal supplies. Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said this at a press conference on Tuesday, an Ukrinform correspondent reported. “As for the remainder of coal – the amount of coal consumption and the coal that we get has...

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk expects a drop in the gas price for Ukraine next year. He said this at a press conference on Tuesday. “Now we are expecting the gas price at $340 [per 1,000 cubic meters] for the first quarter of the next year, and possibly even lower,” he said, linking a potential drop in gas prices to the...

Almost one in four residents of Ukraine – 24.1% – expects drastic changes in the country in not earlier than a year, according to a survey conducted by Kyiv International Institute of Sociology at the request of ZN.UA. One in five citizens of Ukraine – 21.5% – has lost faith that some order could be brought to the country....

Russia will soon cease to be among the main trading partners of Ukraine. Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said this at a press conference on Tuesday. “Russia will stop being one of Ukraine’s main trading partners in the near future,” he said. According to Yatseniuk, today the trade with Russia has halved. He noted that...